The State Government is moving forward with its plans to grow WA’s screen industry and workforce through incentives, admitting it likely wouldn’t be popular with the US President.
Liam Murphy
Consummate cabaret star Michael Griffiths is doing his best to feel glass-half-full about the closure of the Perth International Cabaret Festival, and is returning to Perth for Afterdark Performance Lounge.
Tanya MacNaughton
Hildegard von Bingen’s medieval paean to wisdom, O Virtus Sapientiae, infuses Grove Library with a cathedral ambience for a winter season finale.
David Cusworth
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is inviting audiences to walk in the shoes of a giant in the school holidays with its production Beanstalk that flips the traditional Jack And The Beanstalk script.
Broadway musical Anastasia will take audiences on a journey into the past when the Australian production tours to Crown Theatre Perth in March 2026.
Conductor Otto Tausk brings a Dutch treat to WA Symphony Orchestra’s new Underground Series with Danceworks at State Theatre Centre.
WA Ballet returns to Crown Theatre Perth for the first time since its 2021 season of Dracula, with a more child-friendly production programmed for the July school holidays.
Australian Chamber Orchestra celebrates 50 years with homegrown talents and Cello Concerto premiere from Finnish composer Jaakko Kuusisto.
New music is fun with James Ledger, doyen composer and artistic director of the WA Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Project.
Ernst and Young executive Darren Lewsen new chair of the State opera company, replacing Andrew Pascoe next week.
The 30-year-old revealed she is excited to finally perform in Perth - and to play tourist in her own town.
Jade Jurewicz
Joy and wonder suffuse world premiere of Australian Andrew Schultz’s Symphony No.4, with WA Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk at Winthrop Hall.
Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford thought two comics dating each other was the craziest relationship choice in the world until he met Anne Edmonds.
Festival of Fiction returns for 2025 with a list of big-name authors on this year’s huge two-day program.
Anyone who has ever played drinking game Never Have I Ever knows its perchance to result in things getting rather messy, making it the perfect premise for Deborah Frances-White’s debut play of the same name.
Never Have I Ever is an invitation to a hilariously high-stakes and dangerously volatile dinner party absolutely worth accepting.
A damaged Banksy mural in Venice will be restored following funding by an Italian bank.
Staff Writers
This year’s light and sound nature walk features more than 20 new dazzling installations.
Kellie Balaam
While she generally sees it as more of a blessing than a curse, comedian Alex Ward has a look which she calls “pretty approachable”.
‘I realised in a second that it was real.’
Jack Guy
Bangarra Dance Theatre marked a milestone moment in more ways than one when the Indigenous performing arts company premiered Illume, its first ever visual arts collaboration, at the start of June.
Pandemic downtime prompts WA Opera star Paul O’Neill to swap arias for the deep fryer at Coolbellup seafood takeaway business
Simon Collins
Approval for a capital city's tallest commercial building, just metres from its heritage-listed parliament, disrespects history and heritage, opponents say.
Abe Maddison
Perth Symphony Orchestra celebrates 2023 hit with a revival this weekend — and creative director Fiona Campbell is loving it.
